River Kanning
@riverk.bsky.social
Those who become jailers are themselves no longer free.
Beginning to understand the impulse to chisel names off of obelisks
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Beginning to understand the impulse to chisel names off of obelisks
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Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
Wish I’d had this handy infographic back when I taught expository writing
i made a helpful reference
December 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Wish I’d had this handy infographic back when I taught expository writing
Time for the annual angst of “Is my office gift exchange gift suitably bland and acceptable”
December 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Time for the annual angst of “Is my office gift exchange gift suitably bland and acceptable”
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Creative brands coming to Bluesky to announce AI shit
December 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Creative brands coming to Bluesky to announce AI shit
When several very specific interests overlap
Submissions page on website:
juliebozza.com/submissions-...
juliebozza.com/submissions-...
Submissions – Arthurian anthology - Julie Bozza
Call for Submissions Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales After the success of well-regarded anthology Queer Weird West Tales, editor Julie Bozza is following her heart and soul to the Arthuri...
juliebozza.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
When several very specific interests overlap
This, unfortunately, makes a lot of sense. They are ginning up the same tissue-thin rationale the U.S. govt used to send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WW2 — with even less justification
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This, unfortunately, makes a lot of sense. They are ginning up the same tissue-thin rationale the U.S. govt used to send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WW2 — with even less justification
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while you are making your best-SFF-books of the year lists you COULD, I'm just saying, think about which of those books are relevant to the aims of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, and which ones you might wanna nominate for the prize when nominations open in March
just saying
just saying
Ursula K. Le Guin — The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
www.ursulakleguin.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
while you are making your best-SFF-books of the year lists you COULD, I'm just saying, think about which of those books are relevant to the aims of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, and which ones you might wanna nominate for the prize when nominations open in March
just saying
just saying
This is a fantastic analysis. “If I’ve gone into slightly tortured detail to explain how TV acting and writing work, it’s because I, as a scholar of boning, know how hard it is to produce sex scenes that convey story and character while also being hot.”
good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End
Heated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the rom...
readingtheend.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is a fantastic analysis. “If I’ve gone into slightly tortured detail to explain how TV acting and writing work, it’s because I, as a scholar of boning, know how hard it is to produce sex scenes that convey story and character while also being hot.”
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Currently reading Moby-Dick by Herman Melville for the first time. Killer line from Chapter 9: The Sermon that still resonates today: "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
December 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Currently reading Moby-Dick by Herman Melville for the first time. Killer line from Chapter 9: The Sermon that still resonates today: "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
The Onion is undefeated
“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...
theonion.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The Onion is undefeated
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The latest edition of my newsletter includes must-reads, organizing resources, year-end reflections, and a writing exercise for anyone trying to stay whole and take action in 2026.
Must-Reads and Some Notes on Taking Action and Staying Whole in 2026
As we close out a year of crisis and courage, I’m thinking about what sustains us — and what comes next.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The latest edition of my newsletter includes must-reads, organizing resources, year-end reflections, and a writing exercise for anyone trying to stay whole and take action in 2026.
Hit ‘em in their wallet, it’s what corporations have instead of hearts
We have to use every tool available to us - including our dollars. This Black Friday and weekend @blackvotersmatterfund.org asks you to join “We Ain’t Buyin’ It!” to send a message to Trump’s corporate enablers. Learn more about the companies targeted in this campaign here: weaintbuyingit.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Hit ‘em in their wallet, it’s what corporations have instead of hearts
saving this for Booksmas aka Cozyfest, where my family exchanges gifts of books and socks and hangs around reading and drinking hot cocoa on 12/24
it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
2025 Queer Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Welcome to the 2025 list of queer adult science-fiction and fantasy books! If you’re new to this dance, this list and the ones before (see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) are my answer t…
kadoore.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
saving this for Booksmas aka Cozyfest, where my family exchanges gifts of books and socks and hangs around reading and drinking hot cocoa on 12/24
Supporting my hypothesis that Fae behavior/traits in folklore are all modeled after neurodivergent people, exhibit #2,351
The Daily Tism Patreon is where I sacrifice myself on the altar of dignity for your reading pleasure: www.patreon.com/posts/143566...
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Supporting my hypothesis that Fae behavior/traits in folklore are all modeled after neurodivergent people, exhibit #2,351
As long as I’ve been imprisoned in an ornate lacquered wardrobe by an evil clockwork automaton, I’ll be golden
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
As long as I’ve been imprisoned in an ornate lacquered wardrobe by an evil clockwork automaton, I’ll be golden
Autocorrect just changed grandparenting to grandpa renting, and I don’t know what to do with this information, so I’m sharing it with you
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Autocorrect just changed grandparenting to grandpa renting, and I don’t know what to do with this information, so I’m sharing it with you
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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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The Digital Ghosts of Hargrave House — Part Two
By E.M. Morrissey
dlvr.it
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Happy New Story Sunday! Desperately fighting back the inexorable tide of Christmas Stuff, we have a proper spooooky story for you this week by the fabulous fabulist E.M. Morrissey. Stay scary out there 🖤
The Digital Ghosts of Hargrave House — Part One
By E.M. Morrissey
dailytomorrow.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Happy New Story Sunday! Desperately fighting back the inexorable tide of Christmas Stuff, we have a proper spooooky story for you this week by the fabulous fabulist E.M. Morrissey. Stay scary out there 🖤
A stroll through the gloaming
November 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A stroll through the gloaming
The perfect cookbook author’s name does not exis—
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The perfect cookbook author’s name does not exis—
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Spotify customer service is immediately ending conversations if you ask about them airing ICE advertisements on the platform.
Cancel your Spotify subscription.
#BoycottSpotify
Cancel your Spotify subscription.
#BoycottSpotify
October 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Spotify customer service is immediately ending conversations if you ask about them airing ICE advertisements on the platform.
Cancel your Spotify subscription.
#BoycottSpotify
Cancel your Spotify subscription.
#BoycottSpotify